Sunday, May 16th - When Patti and I were driving to El Moro for our hike it was about 8:30 in the morning and we had our windshield wipers on! Not good, fortunately it was a light rain and stopped by the time we arrived, although it never warmed up like we had hoped. There was this thick marine layer with us the whole day, at times it felt like we were hiking in the clouds.
Joining Patti and I on this hike was her daughter, Katie, her boyfriend Griffith, Laura and her boyfriend David. We went on our favorite trails, up Moro Ridge we then headed left down Sommer Ridge, took another left on, Slow ‘N Easy, and that runs into El Moro Canyon through the oak trees and back to the rangers’ station. It’s always fun to get out and hike, just wished it was a little warmer. When it’s cold you really don’t have a chance to see any rattlesnakes, we did get to see a deer feeding on a hillside right off of the El Moro Canyon trail.
As a lot of you know already, Patti and I track our miles using our iTouches with the Nike Plus system. You have a sensor in your Nike shoes, and the iTouch has a receiver for the sensor, and it tracks your miles and calories burned, your pace and also the time. It’s a very cool tool to use, if you like to hike, walk or run. Well, we showed the system to Laura, and after we left our 12 mile, 3 and a half hour hike, Laura stopped by the Nike store and bought the shoes and sensor, she already had the iTouch. Yeah, Laura! What’s funny about logging miles via this system, is that it makes you want to log more miles, Patti and I always try to out walk each other. I walk a 5 or 10k in the morning before work and Patti walks at lunch. If you want to learn more about the Nike Plus go to; http://www.nikeplus.com
We’re having another group hike at El Moro this coming Saturday at 8:45. Contact us for details if you would like to join us.
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